A tragedy. According to CrowdStrike founder and CEO George Kurtz, the whole palaver concerns “a defect found in a Falcon content update for Windows hosts” - in other words, an update to their ...

The sensor expected 20 input fields, but the update provided 21 input fields. “In this instance, the mismatch resulted in an out-of-bounds memory read, causing a system crash,” CrowdStrike wrote.

As a result, a high proportion of CrowdStrike customers were likely to be affected by the update, which the company has said contained an unspecified “defect” for the Windows version of Falcon.

Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. A week after a botched CrowdStrike update caused Windows machines around the world to crash, most have been restored. Here's what ...

In this article, I aim to provide an update on how CrowdStrike has regained customer trust, the company's performance post-incident, and why I continue to see long-term value in the stock.

In a blog post, CrowdStrike said, the crash was triggered by a faulty configuration update that was designed to "target newly observed, malicious named pipes being used by common C2 frameworks in ...

The defective CrowdStrike software update led to impacts on real-world services including more than 1,000 flights reportedly canceled, health-care services such as surgeries curtailed and 911 ...

With a potentially lengthy recovery ahead, the defective CrowdStrike update that led to an unprecedented worldwide Microsoft outage will ultimately raise questions about the automatic update process ...